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1. Sawday's Book Review
October 15, 2010
The place of women's bodies within the human-machine assemblage, opening with a highly effective rereading of the WW2 icon 'Rosie the Riveter', who demonstrating Norman Rockwell's recycling of Renaissance iconography to produce 'Rosie as essentially a temporary man'. 'Where are we to discover the Renaissance equivalents of Rosie' asks Sawday. The answer lies, in part, in the figure of the distaff and the semiosis that attaches to spinning and weaving in Links Of London Bracelets the period, but also with the spinning wheel as a way of regulating women's labour and movement.
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Author: tong Clinton
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